Clinical Audit Assistant

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced team member to support the delivery of the Clinical Audit Programme, coordinate full audit cycles, and maintain the AMaT system.

You will work with clinical teams to monitor progress, collect data, produce reports and dashboards, and contribute to governance through assurance committees.

The role offers flexible working options and opportunities to develop expertise in clinical governance and quality improvement.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of clinical audit methodology and quality assurance processes.
• Experience supporting clinical audit, and evidence of attendance of clinical audit training
• Experience of managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
• Training health professionals & others on audit methodology techniques
• Strong understanding of data processing with the ability to identify trends and themes in the data
• Experience using audit management systems or databases.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of the Trust Clinical Audit Programme.
• Coordinate and facilitate audit projects throughout the full audit cycle.
• Administer and maintain AMaT, ensuring audit records, timelines and outcomes are up to date.
• Support clinical teams in creating, maintaining and monitoring online audit projects.
• Collect, validate, analyse and input audit data accurately and within agreed timescales.
• Develop and maintain audit tools, questionnaires, data collection systems and reporting templates.
• Produce audit reports, dashboards and summaries to support governance and decision-making.
• Support participation in national, regional and mandatory audit programmes.
• Prepare agendas, reports, minutes and documentation for the Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Committee.

Skills

Communication skills

Deadlines

Analytical skills

Report writing

Interpersonal skills

Audit knowledge

Tools

Audit systems

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Support the delivery of the Trust Clinical Audit Programme, including local, national and mandatory audit activity.
• Coordinate and facilitate audit projects throughout the full audit cycle, from registration and design through to reporting, action planning and re-audit.
• Administer and maintain the Trust's Audit Management and Tracking System (AMaT), ensuring audit records, timelines, actions and outcomes are accurate and up to date.
• Support clinical teams in the creation, maintenance and monitoring of online audit projects to track audit progress, compliance and improvement activity.
• Collect, validate, analyse and input audit data accurately and within agreed timescales.
• Develop and maintain audit tools, questionnaires, data collection systems and reporting templates.
• Produce audit reports, presentations, dashboards and summaries to support decision-making and governance processes.
• Support clinical teams in measuring compliance against national guidance, local standards and best practice requirements.
• Monitor audit progress through AMaT and provide regular updates and exception reporting to relevant governance and assurance forums.
• Maintain accurate records of audit activity, organisational compliance, action plans and audit outcomes.
• Support services to ensure recommendations, lessons learned and improvement actions arising from audit activity are documented, monitored and evidenced through completion.
• Support services in developing and implementing action plans and coordinating follow-up and re-audit activity to demonstrate improvement.
• Provide training on a one to one basis or to teams on clinical audit methodology the use of AMaT.
• Support participation in national, regional and mandatory audit programmes, ensuring reporting requirements are met.
• Prepare agendas, reports, minutes and supporting documentation for the Clinical Audit & Effectiveness Committee
• Contribute to assurance reporting for Trust committees, sub-committees and governance groups.
• Promote evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness and continuous quality improvement across the organisation.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders regarding audit activity, reporting requirements, governance processes and system developments

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of clinical audit methodology and quality assurance processes.
• Experience supporting clinical audit, and evidence of attendance of clinical audit training
• Experience of managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
• Training health professionals & others on audit methodology techniques

Desirable criteria

• Strong understanding of data processing with the ability to identify trends and themes in the data
• Experience using audit management systems or databases.

Behaviours and Values

Essential criteria

• Enthusiastic, motivated and able to work autonomously as well as within a team
• Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
• Committed to continual quality and service improvement
• Able to engage with a variety of people, including those within an identified team and those in external agencies

Skills & abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills, both written & oral, and interpersonal skills in order to form and maintain positive rapports with a variety of colleagues both internal and external
• Ability to work to deadlines and ability to prioritise workload
• Ability to provide advice to clinicians regarding ensuring clinical audit measure standards which affect healthcare
• Good analytical skills with a proactive approach to process improvement
• Good quality report writing skills & delivery of information as required

Important Information

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: